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Mistake in manual
- From: Steve Hoeg <sphoeg at gmail dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:00:22 -0500
- Subject: Mistake in manual
- Organization: antisolutions
- Reply-to: sphoeg at gmail dot com
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> I found an obvious mistake in glibc manual, and it must have been
> there for quite a few years. In chapter "6.3.4 Converting Multibyte
> and Wide Character Strings", In "mbsrtowcs" section, there is a
> sentence that reads:
>
> The requirement that dst has to be a NUL-terminated string provides
> problems if one wants to convert buffers with text.
>
> Here, `dst' should be `src'! Please confirm this mistake and correct
> it.